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Malawi Tea 2020
Improved Smallholder Livelihoods & Energy Efficiency
Thwango Ndalama, ETP
OVERALL OBJECTIVES PILLAR 4
Improved farming
practicesHigher yields
Improved quality
Higher green leaf
price
Improved business practices
More income sources
PROFITABLE SMALLHOLDER SECTOR
Higher incomes
Healthier lives
FFS
FFS & VSL FFS & VSL FFS & VSL
UTZ-led project; starting soon
FFS & VSL
FFSFFS
PROGRESS MADE IN SMALLHOLDER PILLAR
1. Farmer Field Schools
o GAP training (incl demo plots)
o All FFS also train on: Income diversification, FBS, nutrition & sanitation
o 1,548 farmers participated this year (3,355 since start of Malawi 2020)
o Increase in both yields and quality
Ridge-making for other cropsKitchen gardens
Quality checks
Cooking demo
18 new tea nurseries growing 216,000 seedlings
27 tea nurseries set up last year with 324,000 seedlings
PROGRESS MADE IN SMALLHOLDER PILLAR
2. Village Savings and Loan Associations
• (Peer-to-peer lending) access to credit and saving opportunity
• 173 groups set up in 2016 and 2017 involving 3,138 farmers (71% women
• First 69 groups increased capital from $1.93 to $69 per person
JUDITH JAMES CASE STUDY
Judith James (38) a member of Chilungamo VSL
she is a widow and has 5children. Coming from a
very poor background, she lived from hand to
mouth, sometimes she and her children slept
hungry. She Joined the VSL programme With
$0.68 as her entry capital, she bought small
household items such as salt and soaps which
she sold at a profit. With the opportunity to
borrow more capital, Judith worked hard to start
and grow a scone making business. Soon she
was able to keep food on her table and put
money back into business. Was also able to pay
school fees for her daughter Martha who is in
High school.
PROGRESS MADE IN SMALLHOLDER PILLAR
VSL – OUTCOMES:
Great mechanism to:
➢ Stimulate income diversification
➢ Address basic needs: food, clothing, house improvements, school costs
VSL evaluation by Imani Development:
- 73% of participants were able to diversify their income (with at least 1 extra income source)
- 41% felt financially secure during low tea season (compared to 7% before VSL participation)
- 51% spent more money on farm inputs and hired workers
- 57% said they now buy different foods (eggs, meat)
- 29% spent money on house improvements. Building/ repairing
OVERALL OBJECTIVES PILLAR 5
Alternative energy sources
Sustainable energy use
CC adaptation
training
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Afforestation and
sensitisation
ESMP
Tree nurseries CC mapping
Solar lights
Factory energy analysisFFS
Energy efficient stoves
CC landscapes program
ESMP development
PROGRESS MADE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PILLAR
Sustainable energy use by tea communities
Fuel-efficient Cook stoves: In partnership with United Purpose
✓ 400 farmers involved (production and sales)
✓ 3683 stoves produced to date , Target every farmer must own a stove
Benefits: Income, health, environmental protection (trees), GHG reductions, saves time
✓ Carbon credits (3 tonnes/stove)
Cookstove collection
PROGRESS MADE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PILLAR
Tree nurseries:
✓ 12 mini tree nurseries piloted this year
FFS & Primary Schools
✓ 32 lead farmers trained on tree nursery management and fruit tree propagation
Benefits: Environmental conservation, income, climate change adaptation, diversification, nutrition
Training on tree seedling production
Environmental conservation and income diversification
PROGRESS MADE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PILLAR
Sustainable energy use
Facilitating tea farmer access to solar
products:
✓ Supporting access and rollout of solar
lighting through revolving fund
✓ 182 famers supported in first phase
✓ Second phase will upscale this success
Energy assessment undertaken with
producers:
✓ Report presented to producers
✓ Action plans being agreed with each
producer
• CIAT climate change maps have been presented to producers by UTZ
• Temperature increases of 2C and unpredictable rainfall patterns
• Nkhata Bay significantly reduces suitability
• Thyolo more impacted than Mulanje due to lower altitude
• ETP working with Leeds University (UK) to provide detailed climate data
• (more discussions in the Breakaway sessions)
PROGRESS MADE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PILLAR
Climate Change Adaptation
Thank you!
Malawi Tea 2020
Improved policies and in-kind benefits
Flemmings Mwenibabu, TAML
TAML Housing Policy
Progress Report:
• Policy has been approved by TAML Board, houses to be categorized as A, B, C & D.
• Housing Status Report from each company by 31 Dec 2017 with clear plans for
implemnetation of housing.
• Housing Inspections to commence in 1st quarter 2018.
• New SAN Standard on Housing has been discussed by TAML Board.
• Provison of housing not mandatory in Malawi but all houses to be maintained and new ones
to be constructed have to comply with the TAML Housing Policy. Companies will choose
whether to maintain houses or not.
TAML Gender & Sexual Harrassment Policy
Progress Report:
• Policy has been approved by TAML Board, Consultant from WUSC in place and working with
TAML’s IRC on roll out.
• Road Map has been developed.
• Training to commence with TAML Directors, Managers, Supervisors and Committee members
• Training Manuals are in progress and nearly completion
• Workplans for Oct –Dec finalized to take advantage of the low season for implementation and
roll out, before rains come.
TAML – Nutrition Update
Progress Report:
• All the remaing Estates have been sensitized on the nutrition roll out namely Kawalazi, Conforzi,
Naming’omba, Steco and Zoa.
• Estates are now in the process of either out sourcing fortfied maize flour from the agro –
processor or ordering the dossifier equipment from Sanko
THANK YOU